MarianneB

"The least you could do is show some appreciation." FOR WHAT!?! BEING TREATED RUDELY BY A BUNCH OF ZOMBIES? GO BACK TO THE ALT.PERL FORUM FROM WHERE YOU ALL CAME.

PLEASE BAN ME AND DELETE ALL THESE POSTS i FEEL LIKE i HAVE WALKED INTO A ROOM OF HALF-ASLEEP ZOMBIES AND NONE OF YOU EVEN READ MY POST, LIKE THE IDIOT BARAND TELLING ME HOW TO "<PRE>" THE TEXTAREA INPUT LIKE THAT ISN'T EVEN WHAT I WANTED. JACKQES MY GOD YOU TAKE THE CAKE AS FAR AS RUDEST ON THE PLANET.

Jacques1, go to hell. I'm trying to be nice, and all you can come up with is some smart-ass answer. I'm TRYING to get help while avoiding ASSHOLES like yourself.Jackass!

I'm always so nervous asking for help because you all will yell at newbies for "asking for FREE help." And usually the answers suck, because you'll say something like "go to www.php.net/complicated_arrays" and tell me to "study up." Therefore, how about this -- if someone wants to Private Message me, I will offer a one-time PayPal amount (if both you and I agree on) to just ONE person who will write the lines of code I want.

My form's "Textarea" receives this data (exactly like this, scanned straight from the childrens toys ): dog,white cat,white cat,black cat,white dog,black bird,white After clicking "submit," the desired result is a tidy list that has to look just like this: bird: 1 white cat: 2 white, 1 black dog: 1 white, 1 black Well, I've ruined all last weekend, all of monday, all of tuesday, and most of today trying to figure this out. The tricky parts for me is getting php to "keep count" like the cats (2 white, and 1 black). So therefore I humbly come to you all and ask for the code, which is probably a super-simple one-liner that will make me feel foolish Please help?